Truck trouble at Toyota. The vehicle manufacturer began notifying owners of Tacoma pickup trucks about the potential for severe rust on truck frames. The trucks may not have adequate corrosion protection. The problem affects models manufactured between 1995 and 2000. The company says a small number of trucks have had problems. So, no recall has […]

U.S. car and Truck sales slipped again last month as all major automakers reported declines except for General Motors Corp., and companies braced for some tough months ahead.
Overall U.S. sales dropped 4.3 percent in January compared with the same period last year, during a month that generally is the low point for the year. January […]

Toyota Motor Corp President Katsuaki Watanabe said on Sunday the Japanese automaker will launch a diesel-powered Tundra pickup truck and Sequoia SUV in the United States soon, in an about-face to its hybrid-centered product strategy.
Toyota, which likely unseated General Motors Corp as the world’s biggest automaker last year, has repeatedly hesitated to committing a diesel […]

Toyota has created greater value to its 2008 Tundra full-size pickup truck lineup by adding 13 new models and enhancing standard equipment levels. The 2008 Tundra now offers a choice of 44 models in three cab styles.
“Since its introduction in February 2007, Tundra’s share of the half-ton full-size pickup truck segment has more than doubled.” […]

Car giant Toyota, whose UK plant is its biggest in Europe, hopes to reach worldwide sales of almost 10 million this year, it was announced.
The company, which makes the Avensis and Auris models at Burnaston, Derbyshire, sold 9.37 million vehicles in 2007 - a 6% increase on the 2006 total.
At a media lunch in London, […]

The North American International Auto Show is just around the corner and automakers are already giving hints as to what vehicles they will be showing off at the biggest automotive show in the continent. Japanese automaker Toyota announced that they will be unveiling the A-BAT concept. The A-BAT is the latest concept vehicle from Toyota […]

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to introduce a concept hybrid pickup truck featuring improved fuel economy and lower emissions at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, the automaker said.
The A-BAT concept vehicle is equipped with Hybrid Synergy Drive, Toyota’s third-generation gas-electric hybrid powertrain technology, according to the company. Its trapezoidal profile was borrowed […]

GM stays sales leader
Detroit’s automakers went out with a whimper in 2007, as a lackluster December failed to pull the industry out of the lowest U.S. auto sales slump in nearly a decade.
Ford Motor Co. was knocked from its perch as the No. 2 U.S. auto seller, a position it held since 1931, while General […]